Mindstorms, Lego’s high-tech robotics kit, was an immediate hit. And after hackers cracked the operating system, it became an even bigger hit. Now Lego is left with a conundrum: Leave well enough alone, or sue the bastards?
Consumers could be unwittingly consenting to being spied upon when they opt to accept online agreements associated with software downloads, legal experts warn, following alarming new research into the practice
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has for the first time given his approval to a Commonwealth-backed deal to end the farm seizure crisis
European delegates at a UN anti-racism conference reportedly agree to apologise for the slave trade, but will not have to pay reparations
A California woman has filed a lawsuit against an independent record label for embedding technology in CDs that blocks people from listening to songs on a computer
MI5 has told some of Britain’s biggest companies that it may be prepared to provide intelligence on their business partners and rivals abroad. For the first time, the security service this week openly invited representatives from industry and finance to its headquarters in Millbank, London, for a seminar called Secret Work in an Open Society
Civil liberties group Electronic Frontiers Australia has spoken out against recommendations that could see Internet service providers forced to put their customers under constant surveillance
The United States government agencies that once tried to breach the Iron Curtain with radio broadcasts are taking the information war to the Internet, hoping to finance an American-based computer network designed to thwart attempts by the Chinese government to censor the web for users in China
Brian West uncovered a security error on the Poteau Daily News web site — caused by the extremely dodgy Microsoft FrontPage — that meant anyone could edit the site without having to provide a password. He notified the editor and later met with undercover FBI agents asking him to reproduce the vulnerability — now he’s up on felony charges for wire fraud
Microsoft’s antitrust battle against the US government has drawn out of the woodwork a number of supporters for a quick resolution — unfortunately, not all of them are alive
In a scathing attack on the political culture of his own country, Sean Penn praised the anti-globalisation protesters’ commitment to change while dismissing the saccharine
lifestyle of Hollywood and dismissing many of his contemporaries as talentless
After 18 years on death row in Idaho, Charles Fain was freed, thanks to a DNA test, and the murder of a 9-year-old girl is once more an open case — now, perhaps, they could start testing the other people on death row
A Canadian group is offering Australians a mail order suicide kit, which includes a customised plastic bag for suffocation, to skirt Australia’s anti-euthanasia laws
US District Court Judge Ronald Lew ruled on Monday that the free speech rights of Utah artist Tom Forsythe — who was sued by Mattel two years ago after he parodied Barbie dolls in a series of photographs meant as a stinging social comment — outweigh the company’s trademarks and intellectual property rights as they relate to the 42-year-old doll
Massachusetts attorney general prevents bankrupt dot-com, Essential.com, from cashing in on users’ personal information
On 6 October, the Commonwealth Heads of Government — CHOGM — will be meeting in Brisbane at the Convention Centre. Fifty-four heads of state from Commonwealth countries, including HRH Queen Elizabeth II, Tony Blair and John Howard, will be meeting in private to discuss world economic policy. Stop CHOGM has been set up by the Stop Chogm Alliance to help build the biggest possible blockade of the CHOGM meeting
A world-renowned Roman Catholic scholar says he has found evidence that the Catholic church sanctioned and blessed same-sex relationships from the Middle Ages to the 19th century
Animal rights groups are threatening to launch a boycott of next year’s soccer World Cup unless the South Korean government clamps down on the sale of dog meat
A US federal appeals court has ruled that firing a person because of their sexual orientation is legal
A Princeton professor, Professor Edward Felten, is suing the Secure Digital Music Initiative group for blocking his publication of research on cracking the security of digital music
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